Aristotle De Anima - Couverture souple

R. D. Hicks

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406752622 ISBN 13 : 9781406752625

Editeur : Read Books, 2007

Synopsis

This book is Aristotle's seminal treatise, "De Anima". Within this treatise Aristotle explores the nature of living things, discussing what types of souls certain living things possess by assessing the difference in their operations. A fascinating monograph by one of the greatest minds to have ever lived, Aristotle's "De Anima" is highly recommended for students of philosophy, and would make for a great addition to any bookshelf. Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a seminal Greek scientist and philosopher. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Like many cultures then and now, the early Greeks pondered the nature of the soul. Originally conceived as a kind of ghost, surviving in a bloodless existence after the death of the body, the soul was defined by later philosophers - notably the Pythagoreans and Plato - as an immaterial divine being temporarily "imprisoned" in the body. True knowledge was gained not through the senses but from contemplation of external Ideas that were, like the soul itself, immaterial and immortal.
A reformulation as well as a criticism of earlier thinkers, Aristotle's De Anima describes soul and body as complementaries rather than polar opposites, as they stand together in a mutual relation of matter and form. Each living entity, endowed with its own animating and informing principle, realizes its proper end. The human soul, incorporating all the animate properties of the lower life forms - the nutritive, propagative, locomotive, and perceptive - has also a fifth power, the intellective. The mind, to which the fifth and highest part is devoted, is alone capable of forming ideas of abstract concepts and relations. Hence, the human mind alone remains free from union with the corporeal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406752622
• ISBN 13: 9781406752625
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 712
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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